On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:07, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Iain Buchanan wrote:
What do you think of the strict focus idea?
As a solution, it ignores the entire issue that under a default configuration, users *are* going to miss alert-style dialogs if they're typing when the dialog pops up.
not really, the idea being the alert dialog still appears on top, but the focus remains where the mouse is pointing: the window you're typing in. Then its seen as soon as you look up (which is all the time if you're me). The only problem is to make sure the dialog doesn't pop up under the mouse.
That "solution" to the problem ignores the fact that most people won't be using focus-strictly-under-mouse. The problem needs to be solved so that it's no longer a problem regardless of how your focus is set up.
That's why I think it's a bad solution to a bigger problem. It's a hack. It works fine for anyone using focus-strictly-under-mouse, but fails to correct the problem for the majority of users.
